Have you ever visited Yo Suhi? If you haven’t have a look at the video. The restaurant is a marvel in terms of giving customers what they want without any fuss. You take the food that you want off the conveyor belt. The chefs just keep it topped up. If you want service there is […]
Can We Win The Afghan War?
Apparently the Afghan police have an attrition rate approaching 25%. Consequently there is huge pressure to recruit, just to keep the numbers up. The Afghan authorities have clear policies about who makes a suitable recruit, but tragically these are not being followed. On the 3rd November 5 British soldiers and 2 Afghani police officers were […]
You Are Kidding Me, Right?
A BBC photographer has been stopped from taking pictures of St Paul’s Cathedral by the police. The PC did this because there was a risk that the photographer could have been an al Qaeda operative planning on blowing the building up. You can see the BBC news clip here. I doubt very much that the […]
No Way In
I found this picture on the “learning about lean” blog. It made me smile. This is an obvious case of mixed messages, but it isn’t just a problem for sign posts. Have you ever come across the same issue when you are filling in a form and wondered what on earth you are supposed to […]
Making Your Own Luck
Yesterday I wrote about the horrible consequences of getting things wrong (Somebody Didn’t Care Enough to Be Right). However, there is another side to the coin. On 15th January 2009 at 3:31pm Eastern Standard Time, US Airways Flight 1549 ditched into the Hudson River. All 155 occupants were safely evacuated from the airliner. This video […]